Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. Learn More

These 165 articles and editorials show how Camus' thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left alongside his long-standing strident opposition to the reactionary right. Learn More

"Changing My Mind" is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny - a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it's a space in which to think freely Learn More

First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. Learn More

This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Learn More

Illuminations contains his two most celebrated essays, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. The essay is Benjamin's domain; those collected in this now legendary volume offer the best possible access to his singular and significant achievement. Learn More

The essay forms a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age. Learn More

'Institutional critique' is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own place within galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art institutional critique emerged as a genre. Learn More

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Learn More